Force LaTeX image to appear in the section in which it's declared As Werner commented: the section Moving tables and figures in LaTeX in the UK TeX FAQ states:. Even if you use the placement specifier [h] (for ‘here’), the figure or table will not be printed ‘here’ if doing so would break the rules; the rules themselves are pretty simple, and are given on page 198, section C.9 of the LaTeX manual.. Use the float package with the [H] specifier.